Extortionist Faces New Indictment

Extortionist Faces New Indictment

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Elgin Vinson, sentenced to prison for demanding money from a
retired university president to buy silence about their sexual
encounter, has a new problem.

An indictment says he used a phony identity to buy or redeem
nearly $17,000 in gambling tokens at the Casino Queen in East St.
Louis.

Vinson, 22, was scheduled to be in court Thursday for a hearing
to determine whether he should be sent to Illinois, where he was
indicted last month.

The federal indictment was made public Tuesday. The indictment
accuses Vinson of using false identification on Oct. 4, 1994, when
he used $13,800 to buy Casino Queen gambling tokens. Vinson used
another name and falsely claimed he was of legal age to gamble,
said the indictment, returned May 9 by a federal grand jury in
Benton, Ill.

In addition, the indictment alleges that on Oct. 5, 1994,
Vinson used false identification in cashing $3,180 in Casino Queen
tokens.